Episode 48 - The Battle of Hieromyax

The History of Byzantium

Robin Pierson

History

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🗓️ 1 August 2014

⏱️ 31 minutes

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The Muslim Arabs invade Syria and begin to sweep away Roman resistance. Heraclius gathers the Army of the East for what he hopes will be a decisive battle.

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0:48.2	Hello everyone and welcome to the history of Byzantium. Episode 48, the battle of Yeromiax.
1:08.1	In autumn 629, while Heraclius was making peace with the Sassanids, a group of Arab
1:14.8	raiders attacked a Byzantine garrison at the village of Muta. Muta lies a few miles south of
1:21.5	the city of Ariopolis in southern Palestine, east of the Jordan River, south of the Dead Sea.
1:29.2	The Roman garrison was largely made up of Christian Arabs and was moving south to
1:34.7	re-secure imperial control of the area as Persian troops slowly withdrew. It's possible that they
1:42.0	were specifically sent there to make sure no trouble makers were about when the emperor made his
1:47.6	special trip to Jerusalem. The Muslim Arabs they encountered were probing north into territory
1:55.6	that had been laxly policed during the last few years. The forces involved were probably only
2:02.6	a few thousand on each side. They fought a pitched battle though and the Byzantine troops were
2:08.4	victorious. The Muslims retreated south again. It's highly doubtful that the imperial forces had
2:15.9	any idea that the men they had just driven off were adherents to a new religion, or that they were
2:22.8	part of a much larger movement. Over the next five years reports drifted north of the turmoil in
2:30.3	Arabia and the movement of tribes on the empire's border. But still there was no particular reason to
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